Young Stars of Kroo Bay

Sunny Boy, the Young Stars coach

I used to play football and I decided I would train the boys instead. I started the Young Stars of Kroo Bay football team in 2006.

Chris - team captain

I love football. I’ve played for more than five years and have been with the Young Stars for two years.

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Sunny Boy

There are three good children’s teams in Kroo Bay - the Young Stars, FC Apapi and Young Manchester.

Our team’s doing very well, but it’s hard. We don’t have our own shirts, so when we play a game we have to rent them for 5,000 Leones. We don’t have proper balls, our keeper doesn’t have any gloves and we don’t have boots - we play in plastic sandals!

We train every day from 8 till 10 before school, except at the weekends. I have 42 players. There is an A team and a B team and for games we only register the best 16. 

Every year in September and October we have a youth football league that we play in. We’ve won the trophy once and reached the semi-final another time.

I very much enjoy working with the boys, they are good boys. They do well on the field and they’re doing well in school.

I want God to smile on them and for them to become professionals like Mohammed Kallon.

Chris

In the ‘Young Stars of Kroo Bay’ I play number nine. I am an attacker. I like attackers because of Drogba, and I’m number nine like Drogba. An attacker is a player who when he’s in front of the goal he knows what to do and he scores!

We’ve got a very good coach, if you make a mistake he corrects you. I am the captain because every time the coach says something I listen and I do everything for the team. Our top scorer is Foday, but we call him Black Max. Our goal keeper Alhagi is very good at saving goals. We’ve got so many good players.

We play in an under-14 competition every year. We just won a final recently.

Football is very popular in Kroo Bay, everyone likes to play! There’s lots of teams - like Spain, Holland, Old School, Apapi, Waterside FC, Boca Juniors, Brock, Dry, Doodie and Belgium. All of them play each other. Also at Christmas we play the east side of the bay against the west side of the bay.

Fabrigas, Drogba and Ronaldo are my favourite players. Drogba is a great attacker and he likes to score. Fabrigas likes to play to the goal. For me he’s the best midfielder in the world. Ronaldo’s the player who most knows about goals. If he’s in front of the goal he’ll score!

I like watching football with my friends. We usually pay 700 leones. We watch the Premier, Spanish and Italian Leagues. In England I support Arsenal, in Italy AC Milan and in Spain Madrid. I like Arsenal because of the way they play. I believe they are the best team in the world. I watch all the Arsenal games!

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